AP IMPACT: Busts of corrupt US border police rise

Corruption along the U.S.-Mexican border takes many forms. It can start as simply as a smuggler's $50 gift to the child of a reluctant federal agent, quickly escalating to out-and-out bribes.

[LOBO]

No Suprise, this has been going on for years!!

[floorthis]

Send the military, stop the "chemical warfare"
this is Government sponsored terrorism i.e. "Controlled substances" that wreck our society mexican army guarding drug shipments.
Mexican Govt hands are dirty and so is ours!
Send in the military and Shoot all smugglers and "trespassers" on sight, End of problem!
Dirty cops should also be shot! Treason is a serious offense!I am not a right winger I just am so tired of all this money being spent to control the border and nothing seems to work! maybe we should send the military. I think Americans in general would support this as it would make us all feel safer, the drug problem would

[Diamond Dave]

Dirty cops should be put in the general population at Supermax prisons. The are WORSE than the drug dealers and murderers.

[Car 54]

DD you and I finally agree on one thing. As for the military. Remember Bush sent the National Guard to the Border to help and four were busted smuggling aliens into the US.

[floorthis]

I think the national guard was sent but had no authority to do anything other than monitor the situation and build roads. Ya know "nothing" but a photo op. I remeber watching the steady flow with a little disruption until they figured the national guard wasn't going to do squat!We as a country seem to always want to tell others and enforce their borders builld their bridges teach their kids how to read and write give away our good dollars without a second thought about what to do to fix our situation. I am very tireed of the argument that illegals only take the jobs Americans do not want. They take jobs clog "our" health care system and burden our schools. Amnesty is in the future for all illegals, Obama and the Dems need to get Re-elected. The repubs just pander to the Hispanic caucus which in my opinion is another "racist" organization cloaked in a non-profit goodwill community organizer group!Hello American Union!

[eff]

fly choppers....... landmines along the border....

quick....

inexpensive

effective

[ford man]

Car 54 wrote:

DD you and I finally agree on one thing. As for the military. Remember Bush sent the National Guard to the Border to help and four were busted smuggling aliens into the US.

you got that right. and if it wasen;t for the people that buy them there wouldent be any drugs.

[spud]

It would be helpful if our gov. leaders would send a clear message that they were "all in" for controlling our border. Instead of arresting border patrol agents we could arrest smugglers. Instead of sending the National Guard down there wearing handcuffs and confined to doing unneeded work, let them actually seal our border like they're trained. Our leaders need to stop making believe to control our border and just do it. With the lack of leadership at the top I'm not surprised there are renegades.